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<div class="fp-title"><span class="fp-number">Livre 4, Fable 24</span><span class="fp-text">LA FOURMI ET LA MOUCHE</span></div>
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<div class="fp-title"><span class="fp-number">Liber IV, Fabula XXIV</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">FORMICA ET MUSCA</span></div>
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<td class="fp-right"><span class="fp-paragraph"><span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">1&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Nihil agere quod non prosit fabella indicat.</span></span></span></td>
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<td class="fp-left"><span class="fp-paragraph"><span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">2&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">La Fourmi et la Mouche contestaient assez vivement</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">3&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">de leur prix. La Mouche commença ainsi ;</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">4&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">«&nbsp;Peux-tu bien comparer ta position à la mienne&nbsp;?</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">5&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">Dans les sacrifices, je goûte la première les entrailles des victimes ;</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">6&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">je m'arrête sur les autels, et je parcours tous les temples.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">7&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">Je me pose sur le front des rois, et quand il me plaît,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">8&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">je cueille un baiser sur la bouche la plus chaste&nbsp;:</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">9&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">je ne fais rien et je jouis de tout.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">10&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">Est-il dans ton existence quelque chose à comparer, campagnarde&nbsp;?</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">11&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">—&nbsp;Sans doute, dit la Fourmi, il est glorieux de siéger au banquet des dieux,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">12&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">mais comme convive, et non comme parasite.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">13&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">Tu parles de rois, de baisers surpris aux dames&nbsp;:</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">14&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">Tandis que j'amasse avec ardeur du grain pour mon hiver ;</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">15&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">je te vois, le long des murs, te nourrir de viles ordures.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">16&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">Tu habites les autels ; mais, dès que l'on t'y aperçoit, on te chasse.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">17&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">Tu ne fais rien ; aussi, venu le besoin, tu n'as rien.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">18&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">folle&nbsp;! tu te vantes de ce que, par pudeur, tu devrais cacher.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">19&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">L'été, tu m'étourdis ; pourquoi te tais-tu donc l'hiver&nbsp;?</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">20&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">Lorsque le froid te saisit et te tue,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">21&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">je rentre saine et sauve dans ma demeure, où est l'abondance.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">22&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">En voilà assez, je crois, pour rabattre ton orgueil.&nbsp;»</span></span></span></td>
<td class="fp-right"><span class="fp-paragraph"><span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">2&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Formica et musca contendebant acriter</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">3&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">quae pluris esset. Musca sic coepit prior&nbsp;:</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">4&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">«&nbsp;<span class="fp-correction" title="Conferri  (orig. avec f. de gram.)"><span class="fp-difference">Conferre</span></span><span class="fp-original" title="Conferre  (f. de gram. corr.)"><span class="fp-difference">Conferri</span></span> nostris tu potes te laudibus&nbsp;?</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">5&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Ubi immolatur, exta praegusto deum ;</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">6&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">moror inter aras, templa perlustro omnia.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">7&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">In capite regis sedeo cum visum est mihi,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">8&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">et matronarum casta delibo oscula.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">9&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Laboro nihil atque optimis rebus fruor.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">10&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Quid horum simile tibi contingit, rustica&nbsp;?&nbsp;»</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">11&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">—&nbsp;Est gloriosus sane convictus deum,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">12&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">sed illi qui invitatur, non qui invisus est.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">13&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate"><span class="fp-manuscript" title="Afficher le manuscrit (édition paléographique)"
>[<a target="fppithoeanus" href="http://www.archive.org/stream/lesfablesdephdr00robegoog#page/n128/mode/1up">p.65</a>]</span> Reges commemoras et matronarum oscula.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">14&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Ego granum in hiemem cum studiose congero,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">15&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">te circa murum pasci video stercore.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">16&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Aras frequentas&nbsp;? nempe abigeris, quo venis.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">17&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Nihil laboras&nbsp;? Ideo, cum opus est, nihil habes.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">18&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Super etiam jactas tegere quod <span class="fp-correction" title="debes  (orig. avec f. de gram.)"><span class="fp-difference">debet</span></span><span class="fp-original" title="debet  (f. de gram. corr.)"><span class="fp-difference">debes</span></span> pudor.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">19&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Aestate me lacessis ; cum bruma est siles.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">20&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Mori contractam cum te cogunt frigora,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">21&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">me copiosa recipit incolomem domus.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">22&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Satis profecto rettudi superbiam.&nbsp;»</span></span></span></td>
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<td class="fp-left"><span class="fp-paragraph"><span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">23&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">Cette fable nous apprend à connaître deux caractères différents&nbsp;:</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">24&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">l'homme qui fait parade de faux avantages,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">25&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">et celui dont la vertu brille d'un solide éclat.</span></span></span></td>
<td class="fp-right"><span class="fp-paragraph"><span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">23&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Fabella talis hominum discernit notas,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">24&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">eorum qui se falsis ornant laudibus,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">25&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">et quorum virtus exhibet solidum decus.</span></span></span></td>
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<div class="fp-translator">Traduit par M. E. Panckoucke, 1864</div>
<div class="fp-la-fontaine">Lire la fable de La Fontaine&nbsp;: <a href="http://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/La_Mouche_et_la_Fourmi">La Mouche et la Fourmi</a></div>
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